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3rd Conference of Eastern and Central European Botanic Gardens

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October 9-11, 2017

Budapest, Hungary

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

You are warmly invited to the 3rd Conference of Eastern and Central European Botanic Gardens to be held in Budapest, Hungary from 9 to 11 October 2017 at the Buda Campus and Arboretum of Szent István University on the occasion that the organizer Hungarian Association of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens (HAABG) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

We appreciate and reckon EastCentGard as a valuable and important regional initiation, so our committed intention is to revitalize it. EastCentGard III to follow in line ECG I (Tartu, Estonia - 2003) and ECG II (Warsaw/Rogów, Poland - 2007) and it is going to address the classic features of botanic gardens and the challenges they are currently facing in the CEE region.

Focusing on the relations of botanic gardens and society, especially in terms of serving public goods, main topics will cover the function of botanic gardens as knowledge centres, the triad of strategy- management-operation as well as social aspects of gardens’ classic roles including conservation and education.